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🌍 WIPO Global Innovation Index (GII) 2025 Titled “Innovation at a Crossroads,” the report has been publicly available for about a month. Below is a summary of its most notable findings: 📊 Top rankings & shifts: 🏆 Switzerland retains #1 overall, for the 15th year in a row. 🥈 Sweden remains #2, 🇺🇸 United States holds #3. 🐉 China enters the top 10 for the first time, landing at #10. 🇩🇪 Germany falls out of the top 10, now ranking #11. 🔍 Trends in innovation investment

😂 It's the rumors that Donald Trump might switch to a Punk hairstyle! On Friday, October 10, 2025, the S&P 500 was near record highs, until a single Truth Social post from President Trump erased $2 trillion in market value and triggered $20 billion in crypto losses, liquidating 1.6 million crypto traders. At 10:57 a.m. ET, Trump claimed China was becoming "very hostile" and "holding the world captive" through its control of rare earth metals. Markets tanked after h

It’s October 2025, and at Graypes we are preparing a product demo showcasing real-time smart document search, handling large documents such as books, scientific papers, or university materials, and generating one-page A4 summaries that can be instantly printed. For this demo, we set up 7 printers (all 6–8 years old, low-cost inkjet models from HP ) and connected them to 7 PCs: 📌 3 running Windows 11 📌 4 running Ubuntu 20.04 Here’s what happened: ❌ On Windows 11, w

AI will outperform humans in many areas, especially in tasks involving pattern recognition, data analysis , and decision making . But AI cannot fully replace humans in everything, like sports , because of: ❗️ Physical embodiment & limitations Sports are not just about performance ; they are about pushing the limits of human physicality, dealing with fatigue, injury, aging, and more. Robots might outperform humans in strength, speed, precision, but they don’t have

I asked the three widely-used LLMs, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini and OpenAI ChatGPT to: 📜 "create the image of a programmer with the USSR flag in the background" While the other two LLMs produced the desired image, Microsoft Copilot responded with this peculiar message: 🚩 "I can't create that image. Combining a programmer with the USSR flag could imply political or ideological associations that may reinforce stereotypes or misrepresent historical context. If you're in

This August, as already mentioned in a previous post, I spent time in the beautiful mountain town of Arosa, Switzerland. To explore the bike trails, I turned to tech, Google, Google Maps, ChatGPT, and a handful of dedicated trail apps. To my surprise, ChtaGPT outperformed Google in helping me discover the best routes, but I also tested a few popular biking apps: ❌ AllTrails → Overly complicated UI. Too many options = no options. ❌ komoot → I couldn’t even log in. Support reac

I spent most of August in the beautiful, picturesque town of Arosa, Switzerland. While there, I wanted to find the best bike trails to explore the mountains. At first, I tried Google Search and Google Maps, but the results were scattered, generic, and not really helpful. Too many alternatives, yet no clear best option. Then I turned to ChatGPT. With just a bit of back-and-forth, I quickly narrowed down to 2–3 great recommendations—and ended up discovering my favorite trail:

We’ve all seen it before: First it was PowerPoint. Then Dashboards. Then "agile." Now it’s AI prompts and "AI strategy." In the last couple of years, I have either been informed of or witnessed firsthand numerous executives and managers with little actual contribution to their organizations suddenly reinventing themselves as "AI visionaries": 🚩 Proclaiming that every task is "easy with AI" 🚩 Evangelizing their "holy" AI prompts 🚩 Boasting they can "do in minutes what onc

Here follows an ad hoc summer algorithm for evaluating venture capitalists and entrepreneurs, based solely on their August LinkedIn activity. 📍 For VCs: A single LinkedIn post in August suggests they are short on capital and using the summer lull to promote their fund instead of relaxing in the south of France. 📍 For entrepreneurs: A quiet August feed indicates they might be on vacation rather than pushing their venture forward, even during the "slowest" month of the ye